Russell Drysdale
(1912 - 1981)
STUDIO STILL LIFE, c.1937
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
22.5 x 29.5 cm (sight)
signed lower centre: Russell Drysdale
signed and inscribed with title on backing attached verso: Still Life / Russell Drysdale
bears inscription on typed label verso: RUSSELL DRYSDALE STILL LIFE / LENT BY / DARYL LINDSAY
Estimate:
$10,000 - $15,000
Sold:
$19,636 (inc. BP)
© Courtesy Russell Drysdale Estate
lot details
signed and inscribed with title on backing attached verso: Still Life / Russell Drysdale
bears inscription on typed label verso: RUSSELL DRYSDALE STILL LIFE / LENT BY / DARYL LINDSAY
Sir Daryl Lindsay, Melbourne (inscribed on label attached verso)
Christie’s, Melbourne, 14 March 1972, lot 120
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Victoria, acquired from the above in October 1979
Exhibited
Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 17 – 30 October 1979, cat. 116 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Literature
Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale: the drawings, The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2012, pp. 34 (illus., as ‘Study for a painting, c.1939’), 167